A highly influential teacher whose lessons focused on color compositions, Albers taught at the Bauhaus in Germany and then later at Black Mountain College in Asheville, North Carolina, and at Yale. This composition derives from Albers’s 1928 glass paintings, in which the glass was sandblasted to create a uniform color field, a quality that the medium of silkscreen can replicate. Here the complex interactions of shape, pattern, and color create spatial illusion and visual rhythm in an emphatically flat image.